Wichita eagle., 1887-11-12
prRxrSe APPEALS FOR RESISTANCE


Spies. Parsons, Schwab, Fielden. Fischer
and other ruling spirits, mostly memo
| OF the self-same armed sections" that held
the Greifs Hall conclave, went into close
session at the International headquarters
/ in the Arbeiter Zeitung building. where
! reports by messenger and telephone were
/ received as the moments sped.
| Lingg's crew of bomb-makers were still
assiduously at work. For some reason ne
/ himself was unable TO remain with them
all the time, and the evening found HIM
cursing their slow progress. 1t was some
! time after $50 p. m.-the hour mentioned
| for the Haymarket meeting to begin
when Lingg put into ailittle trunk what
| bombs were ready-some fifty or SIXTY
| and started with his burden for the APP
! pointed rendezvous, an anarchists saloon
! near by, known as Neff's Hall, IS Clay
| bourn avenue. He was met on the way
| by q messenger who had come TO hurry
/ him along The trunk was left open III
passage-way of the saloon, and without
more ado men began dropping IN quietly,
/ alone or in couples,
POCKETING BOMB OR TWO
each and vanishing into the darkness.
| This celebrity may have somewhat molhhed
! Lingg. but his delay was not the only
stumbling block OF the reds.
twenty-five thousand people. the An
! archist leaders estimated, would be gath
cred Together IN the Haynlarket. This was
not an extlTyagant expectation, when
NcCormic' ks. But fear OF further rioting
kept pretty much everybody ut home eX-
cept about 2,0O0 men, nearly all OF them
Enthusiastically Anarchists. Undoubtedly
the smallness of the crowd made the An
archiSt leaders pause. THE social revoiu-
tom backed 10y a mob of workmen %, 600
strong had changed to a prospective tight
between Anarchists alone On one side and
the police in force on the other. 1t was
evident to the most casual spectator il the
haynlarilet that a hitch existed solnewh ere
and apparently the meetings. managers
were ali completely at sea.
The great dir1-lghted square was de
cidely uncanny scene with its scattered
groups Of &c sticulating, pish-looking
occupants lining the sidewalks and pour
ing in and out of the rickety surrounding
saloons. The Arbelter Zeitung conference
of leaders had been a prolonged one, and
when at last Spies, Parsons, t1elden and
the rest reached the Haymarkct square
they seemed
BENT ON WAITING GAME.
1t will probably never be known whether
the evident heStancy was caused by the
delay OF Lingg's confederates, proposed
abandonment of the ont break, or the nope
that the police would attack or attempt
10 dispense the dangerous looking crowd
before the speaking should begin, thus re-
lieving the leaders from appearing TO In
cite riot.
FINALLY. an hour and a half late, Spies,
Parsons and Fielder addressed the crowd,
in the order named, using a wagon for
their ostrum The first two, i'll compar-
ison with their usual haran CUES, were tame
as a pair Of doves. Gradually the crowd
thinned out No police i1teriered, and
the chance the reds" had waited months
e.
be Iaughing-stock to the public, the
leaders would be discredited by even their
own ilk, and
THE RUHE-SI C.NAL
would mean not the ''sOcia. revolution"
begun. but the International association
collapsed
Fielden was worthy the occasion. He
had been in the background n the wagon
with Schnaubalt, the bomb-thrower,
Spies and other directing minis who saw
plainly that something must be- done, and
quickly. Therefore, when his ,urn came,
Fielden stepped boldly to the front, dis
carding all pretense of mildness. He cleo
triffed the rabble at once. The crowd
swayed excitediy backward and forward
in the narrow shadowy confines Of DeS-
PLANES street, into which they had come
from the open square, and pressed eagerly
closer TO the Pickering gas lamp that
lighted the speakers silaGgily- bearded
face and powerful form. When he tragic
ally urged the wroUght-up mob, Standing
in plain view of police station, to 'throt
tie and kill the law" the disguised officers
in the crowd saw the necessity of
PROMPT ACTION,
and word was passed TO their commander.
Captain Bonield. following the plan di
rections of the state law covering exactly
such coses, gave orders to have the meet
ing dispersed. Seven companies of police,
175 men. led by himself and Cap
tain Ward marching III platOons, etend-
ing from curb to curb, the short distance
on Desplaines street from the station to
the speakers wagon. AS the police ap-
preached. Fielden shouted to the crowd:
Here come the blood-hounds. You do
your duty, and I'll do mine" Captain
Ward in a loud voice, cal ed out: ''In the
name of the people of the state of Illinois,
| command You to peaceably dispense
Fielder, stepping down from the wagon,
gave the ''ruhe' exclamation: I'VE are
peaceable." Instantly the bomb was
thrown. the first in free America.
\ suffering spark in the air, on the
ground a binding burSt-that was all.
Blackness was everywhere The p@my
cracking of the pistOl'shOts out from the
mob iammed sidewalks, a few tall forms
in the street rapidly closing together, the
flash and smoke of volley after vOlley from
became hideouS with the groaning of man
gled men. and the yells of rage and fear in
wild scramble Tor escape.
THE SEQUEL
has stretched out to today. Foremost it
includes the death of seven bomb
slain police. and the slow recovery of sixty
officers wounded. The immediate arrest
Of all the chief malefacTOrS barring Par
sons alone, was followed by their prompt
arraignment for murder June p. before
Judge Joseph +. Gary, who proved himself
as able as he is worthy; The escape of
Schnaubelt, the actual thrower of the
bomb, who was set free before his import
ance had been suspected, was a blunder
only equaled by the mistake on the oppO-
site side when Parsons made his ssnSa-
tiOnal voluntary surrender.
THE FIRST DAY IN COURT.
Two months precisely was the length of
the trial. expressing from day TO day the
attention of the civilized world. What
ever legal talent could do was exhausted
by the defense under the direction of Cap
tain Black. While States Attorney Grin
nell directed the prosecution with a skill
reaching every point.
Death sentences for al but Neebe. and
the penitentiary for him: the tour of
American cities by European socialists,
Liebknecht. the German parliamentariRn,
and Aveling, the English scientist, in an
attempt TO give prestige to the condemned
and gain sympathy for them; the effort TO
make sentimentalism have an effect
through the ostentatious lOve-malling Of
Spies and Miss Van Zandt and their sub
seQuent proxy nlarriage-aQ these fol-
lowed each other in rapid succession.
Next came the introduction of the anarch-
lists cause as an issue in Chicago politics,
resulting in the crushing
DEFEAT OF THE RED FLAG